In addition to the HIV test, a test for tuberculosis (TB) was conducted but proved inconclusive. Permanently employed, semi‐skilled operators and drivers, as well as skilled employees, have the highest prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS; even greater than casual labourers. The group displaying the ...
Impact of HIV infection and AIDS on prevalence of type 2 diabetes in South Africa in 2010 South Africas annual population growth rate is expected to decrease from 1.9% in 1995 to 0.3% in 2010 as a result of the AIDS epidemic. The age-... VR Panz,BI Joffe - Bmj 被引量: 42发表: 19...
Southern Africa is hardest hit by AIDS, about 14.9 million people living with HIV, the number of people died of AIDS in 2005 accounted for half of the world. Only in South Africa, 4500 million people living with HIV reached 500 million, more than 10% infection rate. Swaziland the infection...
South Africa's epidemic is one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world with an estimated 3.6 million people already infected. The prevalence is different in each province with KwaZulu-Natal the highest at 26.9% the Northern Province at 8.2% the lowest. However the annual rate of increase...
The circumstance in sub-Saharan Africa is more awful. 1.1% of the total populace are contaminated. The rate in North Africa and in Europe comes to 0.3%, however in sub-Saharan Africa to 7.4%. Albeit just 13% of the world's aggregate populace lives in sub-Saharan Africa, 65% ...
HIV prevalence among children aged two to 14 is down from 5.6 percent in 2002 to 2.5 percent last year, the study said. The rate among youth aged 15 to 24 dropped from a high of 10.3 percent in 2005 to 8.7 percent last year, with the decreases most marked among teenagers, the repo...
While the pandemic will certainly influence the rate of economic growth, structural changes are also likely to be one of the primary economic hallmarks of the AIDS pandemic.This paper builds on the work of Arndt and Lewis (2000) who estimated the aggregate macroeconomic impacts of the HIV|AIDS...
In the present study, the use of condom inconsistently at last sexual relation was also much more frequent among youth who came from rural areas. The high rate of inconsistent condom use in this study was an indication of the fact that high risk sexual behaviors were widely practiced by the...
(N = 96). Three studies compared the reporting of AI practice by interview method [23,26,27]. Most failed to report the response rate (N = 110). More studies first mentioned AI in the main text (N = 88), than abstract (N = 32) or title (N = 11) (...
The rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has soared in China. Yet, there is no universal consensus about the accuracy of the syndromic approach t... Yue-ping Yin PhD*, Zunyou Wu PhD, Chunqing Lin MD, Jihui Guan MD§, YiWen MD, Li Li PhD,Roger Detels PhD, Mary Jane Rothe...